Top 10 Yoga Centres and Schools in India to Keep You Healthy and Happy

International Yoga Day 2023: Today, yoga is quickly gaining popularity around the world, with many countries practising it and even observing International Yoga Day. It is said to have its roots in India approximately 5,000 years ago. According to some ancient texts, Shiva is credited with creating yoga, and Parvati was his first student. It teaches simple meditation, breath control, and how to achieve harmony between the mind, body, and spirit. It is extensively practised for health and relaxation. There are locations where you can learn how to do it, and here are 9 of them that will quickly turn you into an expert.

Top 10 yoga Institute in India

•  Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute, Mysore

The Ashtanga or Vinyasa Yoga, which entails a progressive succession of postures while synchronising one's breath, is the only yoga style that challenges the popularity of Iyengar Yoga in the west. The small village of Mysore, where its creator Krishna Pattabhi Jois lived, is where Ashtanga yoga first gained popularity. In 1948, Jois founded the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute.

•  Bihar School of Yoga, Munger 

The Bihar School of Yoga's campus is surrounded by a 14th-century fort and is steeped in history. But the institute is a little more contemporary. This school of yoga, which was established in 1964 by a man named Sri Swami Satyananda Saraswati, combines a number of tantric and yogic teaching-based strategies for personal growth. Along with instructing, this facility also directs medical research and yoga initiatives in collaboration with numerous businesses and the state government.

• Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Dhanwantari, Kerala 

Ashram runs some of the harshest programmes in the nation and contrasts the Bihar School of Yoga in its philosophy and approach to yoga. This one is definitely not for the weak of heart.

• Parmarth Niketan Ashram

The largest ashram in Rishikesh, this one was founded in 1942 and offers more than a thousand guest rooms. Since it is situated along the banks of the Ganges, participating in a Ganga arti should be high on your list of things to do while staying at the ashram.

 

• Isha Yoga Center

Isha Foundation, a nonprofit organisation, founded the Isha Yoga Centre in 1992. It is situated in Coimbatore at the base of the Velliangiri Mountains. There is a Dhyanalinga yogic temple in the Isha Yoga Centre, which serves as a public meditation area. 

• Kaivalyadhama Health and Yoga Research Center

Kaivalyadhama is yet another very old yoga school in India. The institute, which was founded in Lonavala in 1924 and is located on a gorgeous campus covered in trees, is known for its residential courses. In addition to the daily yoga lessons, Kaivalyadhama also contains a naturopathy clinic and carries out research on the yogic arts. 

• Ananda in the Himalayas

In Uttarakhand, close to the Garhwal range of the Himalayas, is a place called Ananda. It was India's first premium destination spa when it originally opened, nearly 15 years ago. The retreat provides a range of activities and packages tailored to meet individual needs. Ananda focuses on combining yoga and ayurveda treatments with other international approaches to creating a holistic way of living. 

• Iyengar Yogashraya

BKS Iyengar, who is credited with popularising yoga in the West, has a distinctive method of practising yoga that makes use of numerous supports. You will find yourself in front of a vast hall with belts, bolsters, wooden bricks, and backless chairs arranged in a nice, organised manner when you enter his institute in Mumbai.  

• The Yoga Institute

In 1918, a man by the name of Shri Yogendraji started the Yoga Institute, India's first yoga institution. 

• Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, Chennai

TKV Desikachar, the son of T Krishnamacharya, the "grandfather" of modern yoga, is the head of administration of the Krishnamacharya Yoga Centres. One of the most prestigious and well-known yoga centres in India, their programmes cover the principals, practises, and teachings of asana, pranayama, meditation, mantra, and other aspects of yoga philosophy.